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White supremacists revive dream of a homeland in Northwest
Kevin Harpham's attempted bombing of a Martin Luther King parade in Spokane, Wash., reflects the foothold white supremacy has in the region.
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
February 8, 2012, 3:45 p.m.
Reporting from Spokane, Wash.
Three sanitation workers found it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march: a nest of wires in a backpack.
The homemade bomb was equipped with an unusual remote-controlled trigger and stuffed with more than 100 heavy fishing weights coated in rat poison. The Spokane County bomb squad disarmed it hours before the route would have been flooded with marchers last year.
If the device had detonated and the weights had torn into the intended victims, the poison would have prevented their blood from coagulating, all but ensuring their deaths, lab analysts concluded.
The intense manhunt that ensued led authorities to a remote cabin in the pine-shrouded hills north of Spokane. In it lived Kevin W. Harpham, an Army veteran who had posted venomously for years on a white supremacist website, the Vanguard News Network.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mlk-bomb-20120209,0,3946003.story
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
February 8, 2012, 3:45 p.m.
Reporting from Spokane, Wash.
Three sanitation workers found it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march: a nest of wires in a backpack.
The homemade bomb was equipped with an unusual remote-controlled trigger and stuffed with more than 100 heavy fishing weights coated in rat poison. The Spokane County bomb squad disarmed it hours before the route would have been flooded with marchers last year.
If the device had detonated and the weights had torn into the intended victims, the poison would have prevented their blood from coagulating, all but ensuring their deaths, lab analysts concluded.
The intense manhunt that ensued led authorities to a remote cabin in the pine-shrouded hills north of Spokane. In it lived Kevin W. Harpham, an Army veteran who had posted venomously for years on a white supremacist website, the Vanguard News Network.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mlk-bomb-20120209,0,3946003.story
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I'm thinking maybe somewhere off the coast of northern Greenland. 
When we let them spread their shit, they win. We the people of the United States of America should say enough, classify the Neo-Nazi groups as criminal organizations much like California's gang injunction law and strip them of their rights to bear arms and to assemble. Believe it or not, you will find people on this site who defend these shitbags rights to arm themselves with whatever weapons they would like because they deserve their rights just like you and I; fuck that shit!
